More, horrifying context: https://bsky.app/profile/willharrisinva.bsky.social/post/3lqnh5lqoz223
Holy fucking shit this context should be on every news outlet
Yeah I just went looking for other reactions on Bluesky as this was shocking and really bothersome, but that was without the context. With it, it’s 10x worse.
I shouldn’t have had to dig replies deep into a different article to find this, shows what an insane chilling effect this current political climate has. This was 100% a hate crime and a targeted harassment campaign, and it’s not even mentioned.
Well that’s absolutely horrible.
Arson, killing and displaying dogs, then murder all because you’re afraid of gay people.
Didn’t you know that you can catch ‘the gay’ just by being in the same vicinity?
A workmate of mine is gay and I can’t be in the same room as him…and his chiselled jaw! And his toned hunky physique without feeling all giddy inside. He’s obviously using his gay magic on me!!!
I wonder what he’s doing right now? Do you think he’s thinking about me?Anyways, yeah, gay magic is contagious!!
I’m American and I will never go to Texas.
Fucking hell. And some people say ‘we don’t need pride any more’. We need it now more than ever
Summary for non account holders?
I could read it without an account.
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Ty. The link forces the use of the app if it’s downloaded. Otherwise it opens via web (had to delete the app)
When we returned to the site to check the mail, we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and it’s harness placed in clear view.
Nope. Nope. Nope. I quit reading there. Homophobia, arson, and that in a paragraph.
Murdered. He was murdered by someone committing a hate crime. Get it right.
Yes. On the first day of pride. It is rather telling that the articles I’ve seen all left out the homophobic slurs right before the murder.
They’re either owned or cowards. Pathetic either way.
It’s not a matter of “or”, but a matter of “and”.
Murdered by a homophobic piece of absolute scum of the earth shit.
I hope they throw the book at him, but I know how America is right now, he will probably be working in the government by next week.
It was a terrorist attack, but you’l never hear the media call this guy a terrorist.
The terrorist’s goal was to let the neighborhood know that if you aren’t straight and cis, you aren’t welcome.
My buds and I met him at a local comic con. He told us he’d meet us out back and hang with us if we bought him a beer. So, we went and got beers and met up with him. Got selfies with him and a video of us all doing the “yep” thing with our beers. Super fun guy.
This happened kind of close to where my partner and I live. The general sentiment from a lot of people in the area has been getting worse and worse. I know some folks have always felt that way, but it’s so brazen now. We’re always scared when we have to leave the house. There’s been violence.
King of the Hill is one of our favorite shows, it’s all hitting us pretty hard. Both that someone we admired the work of was killed in such a horrible way, and that it happened so close to home.
Remember, the only good Republican is a dead Republican.
Dead potentially meaning left the party and stopped voting for them… right?
Another article for those having issues with the TMZ site:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/jonathan-joss-fatally-shot-1.7550346
I was looking at the Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss
On January 23, 2025, Joss lost his San Antonio home, as well as three dogs (with a fourth missing) when his house caught fire.[8][9] Joss says he was using a propane heater and had left the house. “Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,” Joss said. “Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?” [8] He attended the 2025 ATX TV Festival in Austin, Texas with other King of the Hill cast members on May 29, 2025.[7] However, he says he was not invited to the panel, and an attendee on the social media site Reddit says that Joss interrupted the King of the Hill panel, bringing up his house burning down which he felt was intentionally burned down because of his homosexuality.
On June 1, 2025, Joss was approached by a neighbor who allegedly yelled homophobic slurs at Joss before shooting and killing him. The suspect was arrested shortly afterward.[7][10][11][12] The two neighbors have been subject to a longstanding feud going back years with police being called multiple times.[13] His death occurred just hours after he uploaded an Instagram video of himself walking around Austin and noting how he already recorded lines for 4 King of the Hill episodes.
Kern de Gonzales stated on Instagram afterwards that various people in the area had for years verbally assaulted them with homophobic slurs and threats to burn down their home.[14] Kern de Gonzales went on to say that the house had burned down after years of threats from their neighbors, threats to which the police had not responded, even after the threats had been reported by Gonzales and Joss.[11] On Joss’ Facebook page, Kern de Gonzales described the attack as a homophobic hate crime.
San Antonio Police Department released a statement saying “Our investigation has found no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation.”
I always find it baffling when people do about like this. There’s no thought behind it, no plan, no exit strategy - they just get angry and do something stupid, and it’s just par for the course for humanity. It’s amazing we ever made it past the stone age.
RIP John Redcorn
Sometimes I wonder if the so called the ‘arc of the moral universe’ could turn out like Fukuyama’s concept of The End of History. Maybe we are the barbarian back water planet.
Dang, King of the Hill cast had so many deaths (or is just we getting old and this is a normal proportion?).
Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Jonathan Joss, Tom Petty, …
The Texas Oblast and their stand your ground BS.
This wasn’t “stand your ground” it was targeted harassment, animal abuse, and hate crime.
I wonder how this is going to affect the reboot. Are they going to write out John Redcorn, or hire a new voice actor? He’s in the intro so I imagine they planned on him returning to the show.
I’d image they would be recorded by now, most animation takes a long time. Plus about half the lines for dale we’re recorded before he was recast.
They recast Dale? Why?
That actor died just after they started production.
God damn, maybe the reboot is cursed.
A lot of the cast is in fact dead.
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Holy shit, I don’t know what’s on that website but even with an adblocker it pegged my CPU until I closed it.
TMZ. I already know the website is shit before clicking anything.
Ken Hotate!
They killed Ken Hotate … the fuck is going on with the US
This is so freaking sad … I’m Indigenous in Canada and I loved seeing his character in Parks and Recreation.
I just browsed through this Facebook page and just this past February he proudly announced and showed pictures of marrying his gay partner.
Jonathan Joss was Two Spirited and he was just starting to project that in public … it’s so sad because now it makes me wonder what role all that identity played in his killing.
Fuck America … you can be so beautiful and great while being so terrible and ugly at the same time.
It was 100% a hate crime and played every role, context: https://bsky.app/profile/willharrisinva.bsky.social/post/3lqnh5lqoz223
Hotate was one of my favorite characters. I loved his relationship with Leslee.
I wouldn’t judge a country by who gets killed in it. Look up Tina Fontaine. I mean,every place in the world can be beautiful and ugly at the same time if you judge by what individual people in it do.
America has allowed this kind of shit to happen for centuries.
It’s openly endorsed it in the past, and is now doing so again.
Yeah, I will fucking judge the country by these actions. They come from the top.
I used to provide rural healthcare to the tribal nations here in Oklahoma. I was always blown away to hear just how many of my patients had lost loved ones to violence, and how many of the murders went unsolved.
I had a patient whose son was a tribal advocate who was protesting a case in Colorado and went missing. Their other son went up to get the police to do their jobs and ended up being murdered, both cases unsolved.
The endemic violence towards the native people of America has not stopped and has continued since before the founding of this country.
Years ago, it was the same here in Canada. 30/40 years ago it was all just listed as ‘drunk indian was killed’ and the excuse was often just a brawl, accident, unfortunate event caused by alcohol abuse. These days it’s not so prevalent or obvious … fewer people being killed … but more being beaten, abused or taken advantage of. Hotels/Motels in northern towns often have ‘Indian sections’ in them where native people are booked to keep them relegated and controlled, even if you are a clean cut Native person with a family and children.
drunk indian was killed’ and the excuse was often just a brawl, accident, unfortunate event caused by alcohol abuse.
That’s still a big thing down here.
Indian sections’ in them where native people are booked to keep them relegated and controlled, even if you are a clean cut Native person with a family and children.
Ahh Canada, everyone’s friendly neighbor until you get talking about indigenous people.
they still had re-education schools until 1998
I also would be 100% unsurprised if the police were the murderers.
That’s what the parents suspected as well.
Ken Hotate
There are two things I know about white people: they love Matchbox 20 and they are terrified of curses.
Huh. Always thought i was white. Guess not!
Fuck … this makes me laugh and cry at the same time … I really, really, really wish they had done more with his character or even built an entire series with him. So much lost talent it’s frustrating.
you can be so beautiful and great while being so terrible and ugly at the same time.
I find this applies to humanity in general as well.
Wtf, I saw the thumbnail and thought “that guy looks just like Ken Hotate”, and here is your comment right there.
Damn that’s a blow, lost a real character in the world…
I am so sad. I love Ken even more than Rachel Ray, and I’m white!
FTFY
If you can’t find any beauty in what America has accomplished in 250 years, you’re being willfully ignorant. This country is in a desperately fucked up state right now, and it’s been even worse throughout history, but to pretend that the only version of America that exists is when we are at our very worst is just intellectually dishonest.
It’s been bad for as long as my people can remember.
Advance fascism across the globe? Make multiple trillionnaires and deepen the class divide into a chasm? Kill children through willing propagation of weapons? Spread opium everywhere? Develop a militaristic ethno state that sells weapons to genocidal maniacs, and uses them for genocide themselves?
I’m all for pointing out everything currently and historically wrong with any country, but you’re doing the “intellectually dishonest” thing. The question wasn’t whether you could point out a shitload of bad stuff, but whether you could see any good.
The British empire did a shitload of terrible stuff, that doesn’t mean leading the way in global industrialisation and bringing hundreds of millions out of starvation was one of them.
Germany has done terrible shit, but starting the predecessor to the EU and thereby heavily contributing to the most peaceful and prosperous eighty years western Europe has ever seen is usually seen as a good thing.
The US has done terrible shit, as you point out. Being a catalyst and inspiration for the global spread of democracy is usually seen as a positive. Being a core actor in the formation of the UN, helping build a post-WWII rule-based world order is usually also seen as a positive. US aid contributing hundreds of millions of people getting access to education, vaccines, medicine, and catastrophe-release is normally seen in a positive light.
Willful ignorance. Unless you seriously believe the US was not doing most of the terrible things I mentioned while doing the positives you brought up.
There aren’t any trillionaires yet if I’m not mistaken.
Ok, well that wasn’t my intention. You’re right, the US absolutely did all those other things.
Thank you for showing up at a post about the death of an artist so you could brag about how hot shit the USA is.
Just awesome. Keep the hits coming.
No, the other person showed up at a post about the death of an artist just to turn it into an anti-America post instead of being about the artist.
Yes, the US has issues, and maybe the bad outweighs the good, but as the other comment says there is some good there too. I don’t see why the comment above decided to move the comments in this direction, but it’s not the comment you’re responding to’s fault.
It was a hate crime murder. Seems the US is a shit place for gay people to live to me.
He voiced John Redcorn for those who don’t want to click through to TMZ:
Joss was the voice of John Redcorn in “King of the Hill.” He also landed a big part in “Parks and Recreation” as Chief Ken Hotate. And he had small roles in TV shows such as “Tulsa King,” “Ray Donovan,” and films like “True Grit” and “The Magnificent Seven.”
Damn! Fucking America with every lunatic having access to guns.
RIP Jonathan Joss
